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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Emotion acceptance, the willingness to experience emotions, is linked to mental health outcomes.
  • Existing research highlights the importance of emotion acceptance and nonacceptance.
  • A validated English-language scale for assessing emotion acceptance was previously unavailable.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate the Emotion Acceptance Questionnaire (EAQ) in English.
  • To establish the psychometric properties of the EAQ.
  • To provide a tool for assessing emotion acceptance in research.

Main Methods:

  • Translation and adaptation of a German scale (FrAGe).
  • Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on a sample of 346 participants.
  • Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on a separate sample of 413 participants.
  • Assessment of internal reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity.

Main Results:

  • EFA identified a four-factor structure: Reject Unpleasant Emotion, Reject Pleasant Emotion, Accept Unpleasant Emotion, and Accept Pleasant Emotion.
  • CFA confirmed the four-factor measurement structure.
  • The EAQ subscales demonstrated satisfactory internal reliability.
  • Preliminary evidence for convergent and discriminant validity was established.

Conclusions:

  • The Emotion Acceptance Questionnaire (EAQ) is a psychometrically sound, multidimensional instrument.
  • The EAQ facilitates the conceptualization and assessment of emotion acceptance.
  • This validated scale will aid future research on emotion acceptance and its implications for well-being and psychopathology.